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Publisher: Tall Men Books
Published: Aug 27 2024
Pages: 740
Weight: 2.14
Height: 1.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835-1915) was the grandson of President John Quincy Adams and brother to the historians Henry Adams and Brooks Adams. Although born to privilege and wealth, he volunteered for service in 1861 and ended the war as a Colonel. Afterwards, he found success as the CEO of the Union Pacific Railroad and a significant American historian.
Here are collected, for the first time, essays and lectures by Charles Francis Adams, Jr. on the Civil War, war-related historiography, and his reservations about the American embrace of empire in 1898. Works in this collection include:
Lee at Appomattox
The Constitutional Ethics of Secession
'Tis Sixty Years Hence
Lee's Centennial
War is Hell
Lincoln's Offer to Garibaldi
Some Phases of the Civil War
An Undeveloped Function
The Solid South and the Afro-American Race Problem
Shall Cromwell Have a Statue?
The Confederacy and the Transvaal: A People's Obligation to Robert E. Lee
The Monroe Doctrine and Mommsen's Law
The Civil War Pension Lack-of-System
The Crisis of Foreign Intervention in the War of Secession
What Mr. Cleveland Stands For
Mr. Cleveland's Task
Imperialism & The Tracks of Our Forefathers
The Panama Canal Zone: An Epochal Event in Sanitation
The Trent Affair
A National Change of Heart
A Plea for Military History
The Sifted Grain and the Grain Sifters
Reflex Light From Africa
The Lessons of the Butler Canvass
Reform in City Government
To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Regarding the Philippines
The Doctrine of Equality and the Race Problem
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